PHILADELPHIA (January 4, 2022)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Danish Ahmad, MD, as an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine for the Division of Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine.
Ahmad earned his undergraduate degree in physiology and neurobiology at the University of Maryland and attended the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He graduated with his medical degree in 2011 and completed his internal medicine residency at Drexel University College of Medicine.
He stayed on at Drexel for a pulmonary critical care fellowship, where he was named chief pulmonary critical care fellow. He subsequently completed his interventional pulmonology fellowship at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
He began his academic career at Penn State College of Medicine in 2018, where he served on numerous committees and in leadership roles. He was an integral member of the thoracic multidisciplinary quality improvement committee and the thoracic oncology disease team. He also served as the director of the lung cancer screening program.
Ahmad’s research interests are in the field of interventional pulmonology. He has been the site principal investigator for multiple bronchoscopy and pleural disease trials. He has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications and several book chapters.
He has also received multiple accolades for his research endeavors. He is a member of numerous professional societies, including the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Thoracic Society, the American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology, and the Society for Advanced Bronchoscopy.
Ahmad began his tenure at Fox Chase on November 8.